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July 27, 2011

happy birthday, cursed

"new" because these songs were written and recorded in 2004/2005. they were originally released in '05 on a limited edition 16 song CDR titled it's you.

i have a really strong connection to a lot of the it's you songs. they came out of a really strange / intense time of my life. i was thinking about that time and listening to the songs recently and i felt like i needed to do something with them so they didn't disappear. i also felt like it was a bit much to digest.

after obsessing about it for a while, i realized that there were 2 separate mini-albums inside it's you. a gemini, not a taurus.

---cursed and blessed---

cursed is by it's nature darker and more twisted. this is not a 'pretty' record, but it has it's moments.

last time you were alive - recorded in the dungeon. the vibraphone is actually a Casio Rapman.

my pillow - recorded this in the attic at Camp Ironwood with Matt's old Gibson B-25. i plan on stealing that guitar someday. dig the siren.

a slow death - really slow - inspired by the feedback / acoustic guitar combo used on REM's Automatic for the People. and that's all i have to say about that.

our little town - not sure how it happened, but i found myself in a room full of instruments with Nathaniel Trimboli and John Carroll. the distorted guitar was added later. my crappy acoustic + Big Muff = \m/

dead deer - boys spun out. here's that Gibson again.

cursed -> no, blessed - piano time at Studio 315. this might have been the same night i played cobus green in it's entirety for 13 people in the bathroom. but probably not.

i don't believe in crocodiles - my mom used to tell a weird church story with this same title. this was recorded in the dungeon and you can hear the creepy door closing at the end. that room had such great reverb.